The BJP on Monday continued its attack on Congress president Rahul Gandhi over his reported remark to a group of Muslim intellectuals last week that the Congress was a “Muslim party,” stating that such remarks showed that the Opposition party was “communal” and “divisive.”
Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar, addressing a press conference in New Delhi, said, “Mr. Rahul Gandhi’s remarks show that the Congress is a communal party. Its appeasement politics has damaged the country. History of Partition is testimony to this.”
Mr. Javadekar said the Congress had a “divisive ideology,” adding that the “only genocide” India had witnessed was in 1984, when thousands of Sikhs were killed during the party’s rule.
Mr. Javadekar said the minority cell president of the Congress, Nadeem Javed, had justified Mr. Gandhi’s remark and asserted he was right in saying that the Congress was a Muslim party.
He asked why Mr. Gandhi had not spoken about the practice of triple talaq.